Cynthia Cheng As a “petite specialist,” Kim Dahlman, 5’3″, has hosted a variety of fashion events for retail clients such as Macy’s and Dillard’s. Encouraged by the numerous comments from petite women all over the United States, she decided to publish The Petite Handbook, a style guide on dressing the petite women a couple of [...]
There’s no surprise here. 41.7% of you thought the biggest faux pas at this year’s Oscars was leaving out Bea Arthur and Farrah Fawcett. No excuse coming from the Academy will be good enough. A quarter of you (25% exactly), thought Elinor “Lady Kanye” Burkett was worse. 8.3% of you thought that there should have [...]
Cynthia Cheng Carla Mancini is not a person – at least, not a fashion designer. Rather, it is a line of handbags owned by Mariana Goschin and Richard Elgrichi and has an exquisite spring 2010 line. Mariana comes from a fashion family. Her father was an atelier in her home town of Constanza, Romania, and she [...]
More than half of our participants (at 58.3%) believed that there were way too many nominees for Best Picture this year. Some of you (at 25%), believed that the Academy should split the best film nominations into two categories, similar to the Golden Globes. There were also readers who felt that 10 was way too [...]
It doesn’t look like there are that many surprises this year. Acting nominations include: Meryl Streep (Best Actress), George Clooney (Best Actor), Mo’Nique (Best Supporting Actress), Gabourey Sidibe (Best Actress). For directing, it is no surprise to all of us that James Cameron was nominated for Best Director. Others on the list include: Jason Reitman (Up in [...]
It seems that many (36.4%) of you believe that Hollywood is there to make money, not to laugh at (18.2%) or with (9.1%) society. At the same time, another 36.4% of you thought it was other. Personally, I feel that movies in the past 10 years have somehow been “dumbed down.” Many movies (especially big budget pieces [...]
Hollywood seems to cater to those who would prefer unintelligent entertainment. The movies which do well at the box office tend to be those with what I like to call the “crash, bang, boom” effect or part of franchises (which often have said effect) rather than those which tend to be thought provoking or have more of an [...]
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